AGI and superintelligence scenarios

Superintelligence control and containment assurance

Superintelligence control and containment assurance is conditional work. It asks what would have to be true for broadly superhuman systems to be controlled, and tests whether the claims made about control, boundaries and intervention would actually hold.

Labs and their investors increasingly face questions about systems far beyond today's, and few teams can answer them with evidence. The roles are all scenario based, so none has a settled job description. Hiring is tricky because the work assumes no current technique is enough. Look for people from control research, security, formal verification or system safety who state what they do not know, and who can separate a sound argument from a comforting one.

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ScenarioSuperintelligence Control Assurance ArchitectA Superintelligence Control Assurance Architect would judge whether claims of control over broadly superhuman systems hold up. It depends on how AI…ScenarioSuperintelligent System Containment ResearcherA containment researcher would test whether enforceable limits can hold against broadly superhuman AI. The role depends on how AI develops, and it…ScenarioSuperintelligence Intervention Protocol DesignerA Superintelligence Intervention Protocol Designer would specify who may intervene in a broadly superhuman system, how, and whether it would work…ScenarioSuperintelligence Strategic Risk AnalystA Superintelligence Strategic Risk Analyst would map how broadly superhuman systems could affect institutions and security. Whether the job exists…

Where the people come from

Potential pathway: control research, security, formal verification or system safety

Not to be confused with. No assumption that current techniques can reliably control such systems.

Core skills

  • Formal verification
  • AI control
  • AI governance and assurance
  • Frontier scenario analysis

Where it is used

  • Frontier AI governance
  • Future superintelligent systems

Depends on a scenario

Superintelligent systems with major strategic capability

What AI would need to do
Systems substantially exceed human expert groups across broad consequential cognitive tasks.
What organisations would need to decide
Such systems are developed or deployed and institutions seek credible control and external oversight.
What would rule it out
No broad superhuman capability or no usable, governable deployment emerges.

We give no date. The role becomes real if both conditions hold.

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